NJ-07: Scientist who led climate change issues at USDA might challenge Kean

Megan O’Rourke, who served as a national science liaison for climate change at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is now mulling a bid for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th district.

O’Rourke has spoken with Democratic operatives about a campaign to take on Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield), the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.

The 46-year-old Blairstown native joined the Biden administration in 2020 after working as a Brookings Congressional Fellow and as a tenured associate professor at Virginia Tech. She worked in Cambodia as an environment advisor for USAID, and as an agricultural climate change advisor at the USDA.

She left her federal post two months ago.



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